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Most students of history have likely pondered the question: Is it the times that make the man, or is it the man that makes the times? The question, though superficially intriguing, seems to have an easy enough answer: Sometimes it is the times that makes the man, and sometimes it is the man that makes the times. Rarest of all is the man who is both summoned and elevated by the times, on the one hand, and who has the courage and conviction to shape the times in return, on the other hand. It is this lattermost group of men who we might refer to as the truly great men of history.
Donald Trump is, on this metric, a great man of history.
In 2016, Trump was first swept into office, just a few months after the Brexit referendum in the UK, amid a broader wave of nationalist backlash to the regnant neoliberal global order. Trump, a lifelong free-trade skeptic with New York City outer-borough sensibilities, was the right man to lead at the right moment. He became the first president since Richard Nixon’s fateful trip to visit Chairman Mao in Beijing to begin decoupling the U.S. from its economic bear hug with the Chinese Communist Party. More recently, Trump has overseen a historic securing of America’s porous southern border and an equally historic withdrawal from dozens of transnational institutions.
Trump has met the moment and risen to the occasion in numerous foreign theaters besides China and the broader Indo-Pacific as well. He saw decades of American malaise, managed decline and overextended empire, and he has promptly reversed course.
Trump and his administration have repeatedly proven willing and unafraid to criticize America’s European allies, nudging our core NATO partners to be better versions of themselves in such areas as military spending and defense self-sufficiency. He has responded to decades of buildup of murderous transnational nonstate cartels and Chinese and Russian entrenchment in our own hemisphere by reasserting the Latin America-centric Monroe Doctrine, as most spectacularly evidenced by January’s Operation Absolute Resolve extraction of fugitive Nicolas Maduro in Caracas.
And now there is the unfolding Operation Epic Fury in Iran.
For 47 years, Iran’s revolutionary Shiite theocracy has been attempting to kill, and indeed killing, Americans. From the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut in 1983 to the Bush-era roadside IEDs in Iraq to the attempted (and indicted) assassination of Trump himself, the mullah regime in Tehran has a long and bloody track record when it comes to American loss of life — more than 1,000 Americans killed in total, according to U.S. Central Command. For decades, presidents kicked the can down the road, appeasing and negotiating with the mullahs as if they were atheistic Soviets and not 72 virgins-aspiring apocalyptic Islamists. The mullahs dissembled and stalled, while racing toward nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles on which to mount them.
And then Trump came along.
Trump campaigned on ending so-called forever wars in the Middle East. His critics, both on the Left and in certain pockets of the impotent Right, have accused Trump of violating that promise with the current campaign. But those critics are wrong. Iran has been at war with us, whether or not we think about it and acknowledge it, since the founding of the revolutionary regime in 1979. The revolutionaries’ very first action was to storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran and commence a 444-day hostage crisis. Tehran’s “death to America” chants since then have been daily, and its anti-American atrocities have been legion.
With Operation Epic Fury, Trump isn’t starting a new forever war — he is ending one.
Time and again, Trump has shown that he is willing to take actions that U.S. presidents of both parties long paid lip service to support but never actually effectuated. The notion that the world’s most zealous Islamist regime cannot acquire the world’s most dangerous weapons had been spoken so many times by so many different politicians over the decades that it had become old hat. No one actually acted on it until Trump tore up Barack Obama’s disastrous nuclear deal in 2018 and bombed key Iranian nuclear facilities during Operation Midnight Hammer in 2025. Now, with Operation Epic Fury, Trump is attempting to finish the job and permanently ensure that Iran no longer threatens American interests.
God bless him for it.
The polling on Operation Epic Fury is mixed — predictably, it’s split largely along partisan lines. But I strongly suspect Trump does not care in the slightest about the polling. Great men of history do not put a finger in the wind before deciding to take a seismic, world-altering action. They don’t read the polls; they read the times and allow the rising tides of zeitgeist to elevate them to their better, most dynamic selves. And they have the corresponding vision and determination to shape the times for the better, in return. The American national interest will be improved by seeing the current mission in Iran through. So too will the broader condition of the Middle East — and, for that matter, the whole world.
The skeptics may shriek loudly. Let them do so. Because for Trump, a drastically improved national — and regional and global — outlook is more than justification enough. Just as it is for all great men of history.
The people who are criticizing this war are in effect saying they are fine with Israel being destroyed and 7 million Jews being slaughtered.
Fortunately, Jews no longer live at the pleasure and at the mercy of those who want to kill them, as they did for thousands of years before 1948.
Jews now have a state, a military the means to defend themselves as best they can from those who want to slaughter them.
And the Morally Superior Politically Correct Peace Loving World just cannot stand the idea of Jews not lining up and going quietly to their deaths.
We are supposedly the senior partner in this war, but Netanyahu led the first strikes and warned us we would be attacked afterwards when we were not prepared. So Israel initiated without consulting the U.S. obviously believing it would benefit Israel to do so (which it did). That is a breach of trust.
Then, Israel infuriated Trump by striking infrastructure and oil field depots, another breach of trust likely causing those Iranians who might welcome regime change to reconsider. It is obvious the U.S. and Israel do not have the same goals. The U.S. wants a nation who will prosper and partner with us. Israel wants total annihilation. These goals are incompatible.
Trump knows the public will not stomach yet another protracted middle eastern regime-change war, and says the war is “nearly won” but has also foolishly said that Israel will have a say in when that happens. Israel wants a much more protracted war and is fighting as though U.S. withdrawal will mean the end of its fighting.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/03/11/white-house-fears-israel-iran-war-exit-strategy/
I am not fine with Israel being destroyed. If she has the capacities you name (and I believe she does), then let her fight those wars according to her own goals and capacities. I am not fine with an untrustworthy partnership in which the U.S. bears the brunt of the cost in blood and treasure.
Mostly , because of President Trump , The Iranian people might be now able to establish a legitimate government ,which ensure and respects basic human rights..
Therefore , many Iranian Americans had been dancing the ” Trump Dance ” out of joy at the downfall of that awful tyranny of Iran ,but they should dance because ayatollah and mullahs who had so much power in that Islamic regime do hate dancing with a strong passion. Therefore, those Iranians by their dancing are “getting the goat” of those Muslim clerics. So dancing then is a very good thing do.
Furthermore,, that oppressive and misery inflection tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran, which has as its official title “The Islamic Republic of Iran” has fundamentalist Islam as its foundation..
Fundamentalist Islam hates music and dancing so it forbids to such activities for Muslims Likewise to that is that there is no room for festive activities , music, dancing, happiness fun or humor or genuine in happiness.
As , the now dead, Ayatollah Khomeini had declared “The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There can be no…joy in whatever is serious.” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 348.
BS you are a lying piece of crap and part of P****phile Network.
Who the flying F is JAMES E SPARKS and who is he commenting to? The author or the poster. What a sick miserable lonely bitter man JAMES E SPARKS is.
What institution did you escape from?
My, what intelligent criticism. SMH.
Excellent article. Trump would be all the more historic if he could carry out his agenda without the perpetual interference of the evil haters in the Democrat party, the RINOs in the GOP, the corrupt corrosive media, and the impatient voters who demand instant gratification.
President Trump is YHVH GOD ALMIGHTY’S Man just as Moses was YHVH’S Man.
President Trump deserves to be included on Mt. Rushmore.
Not only is President Trump the greatest POTUS in American history, President Trump is the greatest world leader in human history.
F**k the Nobel Peace Prize. President Trump has earned and won the Peace Prize amongst Earth’s plugged in citizens!
Only the devil rails false accusations at President Trump with the devil’s followers, DemonKKKrats and RINOS and their propaganda spokes holes, the main sleaze media.
President Trump is 100% right using military might against that America hating hostile Islamic tyranny of Iran that has had the years ,as one of that main top ,slogans is “death to the USA’
As the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, wisely, had declared “The right to self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
Furthermore, President is also 100% fight for siding the Iranian people in their righteous and just revolt against the brutal cruel oppressive and murderous tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran.
For that belligerent and conferential Islamic tyranny which has the title of “The Islamic Republic of Iran” being.” at total war with the United States, Israel and Europe.
For the aggressive and combative jihad based mindset of those dictators of tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran have not really given up on their evil goal enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. It still supplies deadly weapons to those murderous jihad entities Hamas and Hezbollah.
Therefore it should be made known that if the founder of the current Islamic tyranny, Ayatollah Khomeini would still be alive today, he would spit on those Westerners who say that “Islam is a non-violent religion.”
If Ayatollah Khomeini had clearly announced that “Those who know nothing about Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….There are hundreds psalms and hadiths urging of Muslims to value war and to fight. …I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1] So if he was alive today who would spit on those Westerners who say that “Islam is a non-violent religion.” [1]
There are also many places in the Qu ‘ran that instruct in violence and killing for the cause of Islam.
As found in ,for example Surah 2:191. 4:89.. 5:33. 9:5, 111,112 ,123. 47:4.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 339.
Josh you couldn’t be further from the truth on Don.
Any leader who lets his country disintegrate and no longer exist is not a great leader. Everything needed to keep the Republic functioning and intact Don ignores and if Don is not controlled opposition, might as well be.
Completely on board with going to war with a country that has been at war with us for the last 47 years, same with Venezuela> Tariffs are one issue where Don is undertaking an issue that needed to be addressed to save the nation. Otherwise it’s cosmetic and it seems Don’s the often the one throwing the spanners keeping people from saving the nation.
Satan’s spawn created Islam from whole cloth to bedevil the world, and we must accept that such evil will persist no matter how firmly we resist it. However, we need not accept its presence in the civilized world, and it is more than a good thing to expunge it wherever we can. This certainly includes ridding the USA of Muslims, and making clear to the governments of Europe that they must do the same to remain on good terms with us. Whether we will be able to free Western Asia and the Levant is another matter, considering the economic and social hole our betters have dug for the USA over the last 60 years.